jboynyc

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• AI tool helps find life-saving medicine for rare disease

  by jboynyc on 3/25/2025, 8:25 PM with 0 comments

• "Greenwashing" Structural Adjustment: Should the IMF Lead the Energy Transition?

  by jboynyc on 10/24/2024, 7:04 PM with 0 comments

• AI Disclosures Project

  by jboynyc on 7/19/2024, 11:33 AM with 0 comments

• Blau space

  by jboynyc on 12/17/2023, 10:56 AM with 0 comments

• Could long Covid 'brain fog' be an acquired form of ADHD?

  by jboynyc on 12/7/2023, 11:30 PM with 2 comments

• Keeping Software Present: Software as a Timely Object for Studies of the Digital

  by jboynyc on 9/29/2023, 9:53 AM with 0 comments

• Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach in Racket

  by jboynyc on 2/21/2023, 11:21 PM with 0 comments

• In Event of Moon Disaster

  by jboynyc on 11/16/2022, 10:24 PM with 0 comments

• Pandemic Side Projects Through the Lens of Show HN

  by jboynyc on 10/22/2022, 6:49 AM with 0 comments

• Some Thoughts on Automation and Mathematical Research [pdf]

  by jboynyc on 10/7/2022, 11:14 AM with 0 comments

• StretchText

  by jboynyc on 5/17/2022, 8:18 AM with 0 comments

• First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: KDE's Popular PDF Reader Okular

  by jboynyc on 3/16/2022, 9:27 AM with 25 comments

• Ideology as Biology

  by jboynyc on 2/6/2022, 8:30 PM with 2 comments

• by jboynyc on 2/2/2022, 10:44 PM with comments

• by jboynyc on 1/20/2022, 3:41 PM with comments

• Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries

  by jboynyc on 1/18/2022, 1:00 AM with 2 comments

• Why the US Is a Failed Democratic State

  by jboynyc on 12/16/2021, 11:00 PM with comments

• by jboynyc on 12/14/2021, 7:37 AM with comments

• Worker Data Science Can Teach Us How to Fix the Gig Economy

  by jboynyc on 12/7/2021, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• Penpot Is Now Beta

  by jboynyc on 11/11/2021, 2:10 PM with 1 comments

• Right to Repair Gains Momentum

  by jboynyc on 9/23/2021, 9:04 AM with 0 comments

• Exit to Community: A new exit strategy for the startups we love

  by jboynyc on 7/1/2021, 8:50 AM with 0 comments

• Global South startups can do better than Silicon Valley

  by jboynyc on 4/21/2021, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• DOAJ to lead a collaboration to improve the preservation of open access journals

  by jboynyc on 12/3/2020, 1:13 PM with 0 comments

• PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation

  by jboynyc on 9/18/2020, 7:38 AM with 3 comments

• Slack is fueling media's bottom-up revolution

  by jboynyc on 7/16/2020, 9:19 AM with 0 comments

• Why openly available abstracts are important – the current state of affairs

  by jboynyc on 7/1/2020, 7:21 AM with 0 comments

• The 7 GUI Project in Racket

  by jboynyc on 5/12/2020, 2:58 PM with 0 comments

• Projecting outcomes of people’s lives with AI isn’t so simple

  by jboynyc on 4/3/2020, 7:37 AM with 0 comments

• The Declining Significance of Proximity in Venture Capital Investments

  by jboynyc on 3/5/2020, 1:30 PM with 0 comments

• by jboynyc on 2/21/2020, 11:11 AM with comments

• What a Journal Makes: As We Say Goodbye to the European Law Journal

  by jboynyc on 2/7/2020, 8:43 AM with 0 comments

• When you write a web server but you get served

  by jboynyc on 1/21/2020, 2:59 PM with 0 comments

• Is the MNT Reform the Most Open Source Laptop, Ever?

  by jboynyc on 1/20/2020, 10:55 AM with 0 comments

• What’s New in Pandas 1.0.0

  by jboynyc on 1/13/2020, 9:36 AM with 0 comments

• Pushpin: A collaborative workspace that works offline and syncs in realtime

  by jboynyc on 1/10/2020, 12:19 PM with 0 comments

• Dat Project Is Now the Dat Protocol Foundation

  by jboynyc on 12/10/2019, 7:28 PM with 0 comments

• by jboynyc on 11/15/2019, 11:07 AM with comments

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Goodenough, Whittingham and Yoshino

  by jboynyc on 10/9/2019, 9:57 AM with 0 comments

• Geeks in Cyberspace: A documentary about Linux nerds and the web that was

  by jboynyc on 9/4/2019, 10:59 AM with 0 comments

• Publishers blocking IPs for alleged sci-hub use

  by jboynyc on 7/12/2019, 11:58 AM with 53 comments

• Writers and Pellets: How Randomness, Success, and Art Can Drive You Crazy

  by jboynyc on 7/11/2019, 8:13 PM with 0 comments

• How co-op accelerators and incubators are supercharging a worker-owned economy

  by jboynyc on 7/11/2019, 10:36 AM with 0 comments

• Critical Security Vulnerability in Jira Server and Data Center

  by jboynyc on 7/10/2019, 10:05 PM with 0 comments

• GNU Guix package definitions for Gov.uk software and systems

  by jboynyc on 7/1/2019, 8:57 AM with 42 comments

• Escape from Model-Land

  by jboynyc on 6/6/2019, 12:27 PM with 0 comments

• A highly opinionated guide to learning about ActivityPub

  by jboynyc on 6/3/2019, 9:13 AM with 0 comments

• We Need a Public Media Stack

  by jboynyc on 5/20/2019, 1:24 PM with 0 comments

• The Gentrification of the Internet

  by jboynyc on 5/13/2019, 10:07 AM with 25 comments

• About Blissymbolics

  by jboynyc on 3/27/2019, 11:36 AM with 0 comments

• IBM is preparing for a UK exit from the EU

  by jboynyc on 3/12/2019, 7:14 PM with 26 comments

• Goodbye to All That

  by jboynyc on 2/15/2019, 7:29 PM with 0 comments

• Astronomers see material orbiting a black hole *right* at the edge of forever

  by jboynyc on 11/8/2018, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• The Gospel of Wealth

  by jboynyc on 10/10/2018, 9:32 AM with 0 comments

• Creative Commons Submits Amicus Brief on Proper Interpretation of BY-NC-SA 4.0

  by jboynyc on 10/2/2018, 2:42 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon raising minimum wage for all U.S. employees to $15

  by jboynyc on 10/2/2018, 10:54 AM with 4 comments

• Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion

  by jboynyc on 9/21/2018, 7:55 AM with 0 comments

• Global Online Piracy Study

  by jboynyc on 8/9/2018, 1:43 PM with 0 comments

• Voices of Idlib

  by jboynyc on 7/31/2018, 7:43 AM with 0 comments

• Is Instagram changing the way we design the world?

  by jboynyc on 7/13/2018, 10:10 AM with 0 comments

• My Best Friend Lost His Life to the Gig Economy

  by jboynyc on 7/10/2018, 7:34 PM with 0 comments

• In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant ‘Ghettos’

  by jboynyc on 7/3/2018, 8:20 AM with 74 comments

• All Watched Over by Machines

  by jboynyc on 6/29/2018, 9:04 AM with 0 comments

• Information about Data Security Incident by Third-Party Supplier

  by jboynyc on 6/28/2018, 7:16 AM with 0 comments

• Etsh Project (V6Shell)

  by jboynyc on 6/19/2018, 11:03 PM with 0 comments

• New Lit Hub Project Aims to Make Critics Vital Again

  by jboynyc on 6/18/2018, 10:15 AM with 1 comments

• Conservancy Welcomes Racket as Its Newest Member Project

  by jboynyc on 6/12/2018, 8:01 PM with 0 comments

• Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion

  by jboynyc on 6/5/2018, 9:47 AM with 0 comments

• Black Panther and Double-Consciousness

  by jboynyc on 5/21/2018, 10:37 PM with 0 comments

• Signal-desktop HTML tag injection

  by jboynyc on 5/14/2018, 10:32 PM with 0 comments

• Unlocking the hidden European mode in web ads

  by jboynyc on 5/14/2018, 10:09 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention

  by jboynyc on 5/1/2018, 6:55 PM with 496 comments

• Guix on Android

  by jboynyc on 4/24/2018, 11:28 AM with 0 comments

• The Fraud and the Four-Hour Workweek

  by jboynyc on 3/27/2018, 7:25 PM with 4 comments

• An Empirical Comparison Between Text and Video Tutorials for New Software Tools

  by jboynyc on 3/19/2018, 10:04 AM with 0 comments

• Gerbil v0.12 is out

  by jboynyc on 2/27/2018, 8:14 PM with 0 comments

• The cooperative crowd

  by jboynyc on 2/21/2018, 9:35 AM with 0 comments

• Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race

  by jboynyc on 2/13/2018, 8:13 PM with 0 comments

• Gene Sharp, US scholar whose writing helped inspire Arab Spring, dies at 90

  by jboynyc on 1/31/2018, 10:34 PM with 0 comments

• New European privacy NGO to enforce fundamental rights vs. tech giants

  by jboynyc on 12/11/2017, 3:08 PM with 0 comments

• We’re Sick of Racism, Literally

  by jboynyc on 11/12/2017, 7:35 PM with 2 comments

• What Delta Chat offers

  by jboynyc on 10/25/2017, 11:31 PM with 1 comments

• Police Are the Problem, Not the Solution

  by jboynyc on 10/25/2017, 4:26 PM with 1 comments

• Attracting contributors to a new project

  by jboynyc on 10/16/2017, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

• Fidus Writer 3.3: Citation management integration

  by jboynyc on 10/12/2017, 8:51 AM with 1 comments

• Classification of the principal programming paradigms

  by jboynyc on 10/6/2017, 3:07 PM with 36 comments

• Sleep-Worker’s Enquiry

  by jboynyc on 9/22/2017, 9:46 AM with 0 comments

• The First White President

  by jboynyc on 9/7/2017, 2:21 PM with 0 comments

• Matrix adds support for video with Jitsi

  by jboynyc on 9/6/2017, 8:50 AM with 0 comments

• Bell did not invent telephone, U.S. rules

  by jboynyc on 8/30/2017, 1:16 PM with 0 comments

• Will Amazon Take Over the World?

  by jboynyc on 7/20/2017, 3:42 PM with 0 comments

• The rise of passive investors

  by jboynyc on 7/20/2017, 9:26 AM with 62 comments

• The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy

  by jboynyc on 6/14/2017, 11:47 AM with 339 comments

• Scaling down

  by jboynyc on 5/31/2017, 2:54 PM with 0 comments

• Collecting huge amounts of data with WhatsApp

  by jboynyc on 5/12/2017, 9:50 AM with 59 comments

• Manifold is an intuitive, collaborative platform for scholarly publishing

  by jboynyc on 4/28/2017, 1:24 PM with 0 comments

• How to Kill Someone in NYC and Get Away with It

  by jboynyc on 4/26/2017, 4:05 PM with 0 comments

• Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?

  by jboynyc on 4/4/2017, 4:45 PM with 47 comments

• No, Aristotle Did Not ‘Create’ the Computer

  by jboynyc on 3/21/2017, 9:01 PM with 0 comments

• The Internet's Gilded Age

  by jboynyc on 3/17/2017, 11:02 AM with 8 comments

• The Digital Standard

  by jboynyc on 3/16/2017, 3:42 PM with 0 comments

• Einstein’s Little-Known Correspondence with W.E.B. Du Bois About Racial Justice

  by jboynyc on 3/15/2017, 9:07 AM with 0 comments

• We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem

  by jboynyc on 3/14/2017, 7:20 PM with 2 comments

• America's Great Working-Class Colleges

  by jboynyc on 1/19/2017, 12:05 AM with 0 comments

• Google Launches Key Transparency While a WhatsApp Trade-Off Is Called Backdoor

  by jboynyc on 1/16/2017, 9:50 AM with 1 comments

• Zom Mobile Messenger

  by jboynyc on 1/6/2017, 12:54 PM with 0 comments

• by jboynyc on 11/2/2016, 8:11 PM with comments

• Trump vs. Hillary: Analyzing Viral Tweets During US Presidential Elections 2016

  by jboynyc on 10/7/2016, 12:42 PM with 0 comments

• Here's my plan to save Twitter: let's buy it

  by jboynyc on 10/5/2016, 2:33 PM with 0 comments

• The Computer as Extended Phenotype, by Steven Pemberton

  by jboynyc on 9/30/2016, 12:59 PM with 0 comments

• Resurrecting Freenode Tor hidden service

  by jboynyc on 9/19/2016, 8:03 AM with 0 comments

• Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike after winning gender surgery battle

  by jboynyc on 9/14/2016, 12:52 PM with 1 comments

• The Facts of Life

  by jboynyc on 9/5/2016, 7:01 PM with 0 comments

• The Mythos of Model Interpretability

  by jboynyc on 7/19/2016, 9:09 AM with 20 comments

• Thunderbird Architect – Mozilla Jobs

  by jboynyc on 6/22/2016, 12:34 PM with 0 comments

• D.C. Board of Elections publishes full voter file including addresses

  by jboynyc on 6/13/2016, 9:58 PM with 0 comments

• License update

  by jboynyc on 6/13/2016, 7:19 PM with 68 comments

• Morning and Evening Blue-Enriched Light Exposure Alters Metabolic Function

  by jboynyc on 6/1/2016, 1:19 PM with 0 comments

• Flirting with Humanity

  by jboynyc on 5/17/2016, 8:35 PM with 0 comments

• Comparing Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-Print Versions

  by jboynyc on 4/25/2016, 1:43 PM with 0 comments

• Poor white kids are less likely to go to prison than rich black kids

  by jboynyc on 3/25/2016, 2:15 PM with 0 comments

• Visualizing Erowid: data-driven anthropological research on drugs

  by jboynyc on 3/8/2016, 11:28 AM with 8 comments

• Why America is moving left

  by jboynyc on 3/8/2016, 10:10 AM with comments

• The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science

  by jboynyc on 3/4/2016, 1:20 PM with 21 comments

• Why Big Tech Companies Are Open-Sourcing Their AI Systems

  by jboynyc on 3/2/2016, 8:52 AM with 0 comments

• The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter

  by jboynyc on 2/29/2016, 12:28 PM with 0 comments

• Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt by Umberto Eco (1995)

  by jboynyc on 2/22/2016, 9:42 AM with 1 comments

• How Airbnb's Data Hid the Facts in New York City

  by jboynyc on 2/11/2016, 8:12 AM with 0 comments

• The happiness paradox: your friends are happier than you

  by jboynyc on 2/10/2016, 1:09 PM with 0 comments

• WP REST API: Merge Proposal

  by jboynyc on 11/9/2015, 2:15 PM with 1 comments

• 2015 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index

  by jboynyc on 11/5/2015, 9:39 AM with 0 comments

• Dutch report: Buk missile downed MH17 in Ukraine

  by jboynyc on 10/13/2015, 1:16 PM with 46 comments

• Jaro Mail

  by jboynyc on 9/16/2015, 9:47 AM with 13 comments

• by jboynyc on 9/9/2015, 10:09 PM with comments

• SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure

  by jboynyc on 9/6/2015, 6:43 PM with 20 comments

• Information systems for the age of consequences

  by jboynyc on 8/31/2015, 2:45 PM with 0 comments

• Lessig 2016: Referendum for Citizen Equality

  by jboynyc on 8/11/2015, 8:27 AM with 0 comments

• CHICKEN Scheme 4.10.0 released

  by jboynyc on 8/4/2015, 8:20 PM with 0 comments

• Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction

  by jboynyc on 7/30/2015, 12:51 PM with 29 comments

• What's Left After Higher Education Is Dismantled

  by jboynyc on 5/29/2015, 8:37 AM with 0 comments

• Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers

  by jboynyc on 4/8/2015, 7:43 AM with 0 comments

• Video Games Are Better Without Characters

  by jboynyc on 3/13/2015, 1:20 PM with 0 comments

• The First Wave Power Plant Is Officially Operational

  by jboynyc on 2/20/2015, 10:12 AM with 0 comments

• Two Steps to Obfuscation

  by jboynyc on 2/18/2015, 8:09 AM with 0 comments

• The digital is a place to hide

  by jboynyc on 1/10/2015, 9:37 PM with 0 comments

• The digital is a place to hide

  by jboynyc on 1/8/2015, 9:53 AM with 0 comments

• Free Software, Free Labor, and the Freelancer

  by jboynyc on 11/12/2014, 2:54 PM with 0 comments

• My Hacker, My Source, My Snitch

  by jboynyc on 11/11/2014, 3:18 PM with 1 comments

• Making Connections to Facebook More Secure

  by jboynyc on 10/31/2014, 11:52 AM with 116 comments

• A searchable collection of websites archived by Stanford University

  by jboynyc on 10/31/2014, 11:23 AM with 1 comments

• Matt Taibi Has Left First Look

  by jboynyc on 10/29/2014, 9:55 AM with 0 comments

• Google hires camel for desert Street View

  by jboynyc on 10/9/2014, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• Hangul (한글)

  by jboynyc on 10/9/2014, 7:49 AM with 1 comments

• Hundreds of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths

  by jboynyc on 10/6/2014, 6:54 AM with 58 comments

• Facebook and OkCupid Broke the Law When They Experimented on Users

  by jboynyc on 9/23/2014, 7:54 PM with 49 comments

• Patent on linked lists

  by jboynyc on 7/17/2014, 2:36 PM with 1 comments

• Bad Science

  by jboynyc on 6/3/2014, 6:55 PM with 0 comments

• The Case for Reparations

  by jboynyc on 5/22/2014, 2:10 AM with 6 comments

• When Science Becomes News, The Facts Can Go Up In Smoke

  by jboynyc on 5/21/2014, 4:27 PM with 36 comments

• Courier: Secure News Reader from The Guardian Project

  by jboynyc on 5/16/2014, 2:10 PM with 0 comments

• Open-Source Software for College Administrators Reaches ‘Tipping Point’

  by jboynyc on 5/5/2014, 5:55 PM with 0 comments

• The Language of Silicon Valley is Slowly Poisoning Our Brains

  by jboynyc on 5/1/2014, 8:04 PM with 0 comments

• The White House Big Data and Privacy Review

  by jboynyc on 5/1/2014, 7:27 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Examples of tech worker cooperatives?

  by jboynyc on 4/23/2014, 2:32 PM with 97 comments

• Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies After Rock Climbing Fall

  by jboynyc on 4/21/2014, 9:34 PM with 0 comments

• At Clearly Innovative, developers are hired with little practice and much passion

  by jboynyc on 4/20/2014, 9:54 PM with 6 comments

• Why we fear Google

  by jboynyc on 4/18/2014, 6:16 PM with 0 comments

• Testing your CHICKEN code using the test egg

  by jboynyc on 4/16/2014, 3:23 AM with 0 comments

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Clojure

  by jboynyc on 4/15/2014, 3:56 PM with 4 comments

• Deconstructing The Philosophies Of 'RoboCop'

  by jboynyc on 4/4/2014, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• Immensely popular iOS app FireChat brings Internet-less chat to Android

  by jboynyc on 4/3/2014, 4:25 PM with comments

• How the FBI Goes After Activists

  by jboynyc on 4/3/2014, 3:50 AM with 0 comments

• You Are Too Much

  by jboynyc on 4/1/2014, 6:53 PM with 0 comments

• Flatten a list of lists with a list comprehension

  by jboynyc on 3/19/2014, 4:07 AM with 0 comments

• Two big announcements

  by jboynyc on 2/5/2014, 4:49 AM with 110 comments

• Xkcd and the will to be the underdog

  by jboynyc on 1/15/2014, 11:21 PM with 0 comments

• Pussy Riot band members to be freed from Russian jail

  by jboynyc on 12/19/2013, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• by jboynyc on 12/19/2013, 5:46 PM with comments

• The blog is dead, long live the blog

  by jboynyc on 12/19/2013, 4:38 PM with 0 comments

• Tone-Deaf at the Listening Post

  by jboynyc on 12/17/2013, 12:37 AM with 0 comments

• Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left

  by jboynyc on 12/4/2013, 8:48 PM with 50 comments

• OpenStreetMap's Redesign Goes Live

  by jboynyc on 12/2/2013, 3:10 PM with 0 comments

• Recasting high school, German firms transplant apprentice model to U.S.

  by jboynyc on 11/28/2013, 2:13 AM with 0 comments

• Technology didn't kill middle class jobs, public policy did

  by jboynyc on 11/25/2013, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• Map: More than half of humanity lives within this circle

  by jboynyc on 11/13/2013, 5:05 AM with 2 comments

• McKenzie Wark's games to beat writer's block

  by jboynyc on 11/11/2013, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• You Can Sleep Here All Night

  by jboynyc on 11/8/2013, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• Mailiverse - Secure mail for everyone

  by jboynyc on 11/5/2013, 10:11 PM with 2 comments

• Libertarianism From Above and Below

  by jboynyc on 10/31/2013, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• What Kind of Problem is the ACA Rollout for Liberalism?

  by jboynyc on 10/23/2013, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• On Lists and Networks: An Archaeology of Form

  by jboynyc on 10/20/2013, 5:27 AM with 0 comments

• Lua support in the NetBSD kernel

  by jboynyc on 10/16/2013, 10:58 PM with 57 comments

• Disconnect Search: Search privately using your favorite search engine

  by jboynyc on 10/7/2013, 3:00 PM with 0 comments

• Why racism and sexism haven’t been disrupted by Silicon Valley

  by jboynyc on 9/12/2013, 6:48 PM with -1 comments

• Conceiving Ada (1997) - watch the movie free online

  by jboynyc on 8/27/2013, 12:36 AM with 0 comments

• Employers Often More Interested in Hiring Playmates Than Best Candidates (2012)

  by jboynyc on 8/23/2013, 8:03 PM with 1 comments

• OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor

  by jboynyc on 8/23/2013, 5:54 PM with 33 comments

• The debate about immigration and STEM workers does not add up

  by jboynyc on 5/7/2013, 2:07 PM with 2 comments

• by jboynyc on 4/30/2013, 11:35 PM with comments

• Twenty-somethings coming of age today will be forever shaped by the recession

  by jboynyc on 4/30/2013, 11:31 PM with 0 comments

• Mark Zuckerberg’s political group funds ads promoting Keystone and ANWR drilling

  by jboynyc on 4/27/2013, 4:09 AM with 6 comments

• Hacking the World An anthropologist in the midst of a geek insurgency

  by jboynyc on 4/1/2013, 7:02 PM with 0 comments

• The Internet is Not a Surveillance State

  by jboynyc on 3/27/2013, 5:44 PM with 2 comments